| Show s PARADE’S SPECIAL Intelligence Report Because of volume of mail recerved Parade regrets ft cannot answer queries Strike It Rich n the first eight weeks of its release in this country “Crocodile ” Dun dee — an Australian film that cost about $6 million to make — grossed $76 million By now that gross should be around $90 million By the time the movie has finished its worldwide run in theaters and then on TV cable videocassettes and in other forms of exhibition it may well have grossed $200 million or more In any case “Crocodile” Dundee is sure to make its star Paul Hogan 46 one of the wealthiest men in Australia and one of the most popular screen actors throughout the world A smiling blond blue-eye- d unpretentious TV comic who was reared in Sydney where he dropped out of school at 15 Hogan has been recognized as Australia's top video funnyman for the last dozen years Dundee however — in which he plays an unhurried easygoing Australian frontiersman who accompanies a stunning sexy journalist to her hometown of Manhattan — feature is Hogan’s first movie Incidentally he is also the film's and his Cornell is its John manager producer Hogan and Cornell invested $3 million in the film a sum that entitles Rimfire Films their company to 5(Kc of the enormous profits Hogan's sensational success in Dundee as the likable colorful Down Under character transplanted in New York comes as a pleasant but not overwhelming surprise to him and his associates Hogan and Ken Shadie his two and John Cornell carefully tailored the movie to fit his special talent as a humorist “It’s a wholesome sort of fairy tale” says Hogan “a romantic culture clash with an Australian hero and an American heroine” “It’s doing well at the box full-lengt- h co-writ- er office” explains producer Cornell “bkiause it’s a nice movie No spurting blood not much Tip for Parents three vaccines that ““Jhe immunize children I I I I for diphtheriatetanus for rubella pertussis LJ measlesmumps and for poliomyelitis can be given at the same time instead of three months apart as they are currently administered That’s the recommendation of the Centers for Disease Control which points out that one visit to the doctor costs less than three Saves time too Frightening Figures f the leading developed (countries in Europe and INorth America the US ' ranked first as of June Australian adventurer Paul Hogan finds the company a little odd at Manhattan party in film “Crocodile” Dundee a surprise hit Linda Kozlowski (center) violence at all and no explicit sex” Basically it’s a film of simplistic escapism that leaves the audience happy satisfied and — depending upon their sex — identifying with Hogan or his leading lady newcomer Linda Kozlowski Moviegoers who’ve caught "Crocodile” Dundee wonder if the offscreen Paul Hogan resembles the laconic uncomplicated imperturbable man he plays onscreen Unlike American show-busine- personalities ss Five years ago when Hogan was 41 and his wife 40 they were quietly divorced for eight months — although they continued living in the same house — then quietly remarried At this writing Hogan and John Cornell reportedly are hard at work on a sequel "CrocodVe” Dundee 2 If they’re not careful they may find themselves following m the money-mintin- g footsteps of Sylvester Stallone of Rocky 1 2 3 and 4 fame Hogan is reluctant to reveal the curriculum vitae of his private life Most of his fans know that he was born m Lightning Ridge g a small town in New South Wales where his dad ran a mail route They know he quit school and took odd jobs as a driver salesman and construction worker before he landed a steady one as a rigger 1 986 in both the number of AIDS cases reported and the rate per 100000 people afflicted with the deadly virus The figures are from the World Health Organization as reported in the London Sunday Observer opal-minin- Household Arguments on Sydney’s Harbour Bridge What many don’t know is that he and his wife Noelene were —I survey by Money magazine of 2555 Americans reveals --v that major causes of 1 marital dissension are money kids and sex So what else is new? ill H j married when they were teenagers that they had three sons by the time Hogan was 23 and that they now have five grown children and are grandparents BY LLOYI) Noelene Hogan hugs her hubby of 28 years: Dundee has brought fame — and fortune SHEARER t- “ 1986 PAGE 12 PA DECEMBER 21 198G PARADE MAGAZINE |
